A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches

by Robert E. Johnson

Book Overview

Coinciding with the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Baptist movement, this book explores and assesses the cultural sources of Baptist beliefs and practices. Although the movement has been embraced, enriched, and revised by numerous cultural heritages, the Baptist movement has focused on a small group of Anglo exiles in Amersterdam in constructing its history and identity. Robert E. Johnson seeks to recapture the varied cultural and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521877814
• ISBN13: 9780521877817
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"